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From: fritz@friday.UUCP (Fritz Whittington)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Hypertext extensions to TeX: anyone doing it?
Message-ID: <1917@friday.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 90 23:20:17 GMT
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Reply-To: fritz@friday.UUCP (Fritz Whittington)
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In article <13056@samsung.samsung.com> mguyott@samsung.COM (Marc
Guyott) writes:
>In article <114808@ti-csl.csc.ti.com>,
>fritz@m2.csc.ti.com (Fritz Whittington) writes:
>% I think that a markup language that conforms to SGML is probably the
>% better way to go.
>Can anyone tell me where I can find a description of SGML?
> Marc
(And to also reply en masse to some who asked similar questions by
e-mail): SGML stands for Standard Generalized Markup Language. It is
defined by ISO 8879. However, it is a standard for definition of
markup languages, not itself a mark-up language. One particular markup
language has been defined by the American Association of Publishers and
the Council on Library Resources, and evolved into an ANSI standard as
ANS/NISO Z39.59-1988. This standard (which conforms to ISO 8879)
defines structural organizations for ``book'' and ``article'' and
``serial'' documents. Anyone familiar with the LaTeX book and article
styles would have little difficulty using the AAP mark-up language on
books or articles; the serial structure is something like you find in
archives of comp.sources.misc articles.
A short sample:
AAP
It's important to remember that these tags are used for identifying the
structure of a document, and not the way to typeset
the document.
\section{LaTeX}
It's important to remember that these tags are used for identifying the
{\it structure} of a document, and {\bf not} the way to typeset the
document.
(Note that my example is a little poor: since 2/3 of what is marked is
concerned more with typography: italic and bold. The AAP just couldn't
get rid of these. But they define and tags for varying
types of generic ``emphasis'' somewhat parallel to LaTeX's {\em }
command.)
Of course, you also need some software to interpret the tags in the
light of a particular style sheet and print the document.
The Electronic Publishing Special Interest Group offers copies of the
ANSI standard and several tutorial and reference manuals on how to use
it. Contact EPSIG at 6565 Frantz Road, Dublin OH 43017-0702
(614)764-6000.
If you wanted to invent a technique for marking-up hypertext, you might
need to look at the ISO 8879 standard. I would think that it would be
best to extend the ANSI (AAP) standard, so that you could start with a
collection of such documents and add the hypertext tags.
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